Word: phonograph
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...than their modern counterparts. Such familiar works as the "Hajffher" and "Linz"symphonies emerge with new freshness and vitality; by comparison, versions on modern instruments sound stodgy and inflated. A major reevaluation of the classical style, the project is one of the most important in the history of the phonograph...
...object of this vengeance: mainstream entertainers, or the comic's audience? With Andy Kaufman it can be hard to tell. Six years ago, he showed up on the first Saturday Night Live, smiled innocently at the audience and, phonograph to one side, mimed a single line from the chorus of a Mighty Mouse song. Is it funny...
Instead, BartÓk looked to his own Eastern Europe for inspiration and found it in folk music. In 1905 he and fellow Composer Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity. They discovered the authentic tunes of the Magyars, largely based on modal orpentatonic (five-note) scales and sung to jagged, irregular rhythms, rather than the gypsy melodies used by Liszt, Brahms and even BartÓk in such early works as the Op. 1 Rhapsody that had previously passed...
...have never seen Venus so wonderful in my life and no one will again for a long time. Then, now, all the migratory birds are coming through and there are ten pairs of mocking birds nested here on the place. I play Back on the phonograph to one and he learns it very well. We have a pure black lizard at the pool and I have learned to whistle to him soundlessly so that he comes to me any time I call him. . . . I learned it from someone else. You whistle without making any sound but the lizard hears...
...easy to forego. If he finds himself spending all his section time working problem sets step-for-step, he's become another button on the student's calculators. If he finds himself being asked to spend sections re-delivering the professor's last lecture, he has become a phonograph...